Tending the Remnant Damage

Sheila Peters makes her impressive fiction debut with a collection of loosely linked  stories whose characters, whether they live in Haida Gwaii or the Prairies, are ordinary men and women who have seemingly everyday experiences that glimmer with the extraordinary. Her spare, stripped-down prose, leavened with sly humour and a gift  for poetic resonance, reminds one of the work of Alice Munro or Sandra Birdsell.

Peters creates people who often feel out of sync with the spiritual, emotional, and physical environments they find themselves in. Two old people on a farm try to comprehend the inevitable fate befalling them, all the while contemplating the     strange goings-on of neighbours. A young woman on the lam from Texas finds herself beached in Haida Gwaii on her way to Alaska. A punked-up Vancouver girl accompanies a crusty grandmother on a tense hunting trek in the drizzly woods.     Their universe is our universe, but with a twist that makes it refreshingly new and decidedly different.

Beach Holme 2001 Trade paperback – 164 pages
ISBN: 0-88878-417-1
Price: $18.95
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One thought on “Tending the Remnant Damage

  1. I enjoyed the stories of real people living ordinary lives.I especially liked ‘Shooting in the Dark’ and ‘Tending the Remnant Damage’.I have the novels ‘The Taste of Ashes’ and ‘Shafted:A Mystery’ on order and look forward to reading them.Inspires me to read more fiction.

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